Hot Pink, Or Ready To Blow presented by New American Folk Theatre at The Den Theatre

Chicago Reader - Highly Recommended

"...As the mayor marks more and more girls for imminent doom, besties Cadence (the pretty one), Brichelle (the smart one), and Tatanya (the rebel) get serious about self-preservation through defilement. It’s crisp, campy fun, nicely executed by director Derek Van Barham’s uninhibited cast. Although the show’s ultimate messages about gender inequity are easy and obvious, their riotous delivery is worth 90 minutes."

Chicago Theatre Review - Recommended

"...Johnny Drago’s entertaining pop/camp comedy is risque, raunchy and anything but subtle. Derek Van Barham extracts topnotch performances from his talented cast that are a testament to this young director’s talent. The over-the-top, 90-minute live action comic strip will delight even the most jaded audience member, especially adult fans of all those John Hughes teenage angst movies and disaster films of the 80’s. Jazz hands ready? Set! Go!"

Picture This Post - Highly Recommended

"...A goofy, '80s' style sex plot, and stereotypical, zany comedy did not veer Hot Pink off course-to deliver a poignant feminist message. [Spoiler Alert] Jackson sums it up when she confronts the show's protagonists-three totally 80's teenagers-about their true motives in hunting down male prey. "You think you need a man to complete you?" she asks. Without giving away the show's climatic ending, the teenage girls learn the most important thing they need, as women, to complete them. Mixing serious with goofball, New American Folk Theatre relies on excellent comic timing and a magical imaginary world to show us Americans not only who we are, but where we are going."